Annual Report2008 - 2009

Annual Report2008 - 2009

Contents

IntroductionSelected StatisticsCurrent StaffStaff TransitionsPublicationsPresentationsProfessional Positions

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IntroductionChallenging financial times force difficult choices. Economic downturns are an opportunity to reassess how a library is performing and whether the limited resources at its disposal are being applied in the best possible way.

Academic year 2008/2009 was a fiscal challenge. Over the course of the year, Connecticut’s governor reduced the University of Connecticut’s block grant allocation by 5 percent and instituted other cost saving measures. The Libraries’ budget was reduced by hundreds of thousands of dollars and vacant positions could not be refilled. We ended the year with 12 percent less filled positions, down 14 positions from our starting staff level of 116.

Despite these resource challenges:

• We had a record number of people in Babbidge Library during final exams; • Interlibrary loan requests from UConn faculty and students increased by 32 percent; • For the second consecutive year, the UConn Libraries contributed 500,000 pages of digitized material to the Open Content Alliance; • The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center won a distinguished service award from the Society of American Archivists; • Library services delivered through HuskyCT, the University’s course management system, were expanded; • The Libraries offered streaming video for the first time to select courses; and • A project team worked to implement WorldCat Local and WorldCat Navigator in conjunction with many of the other 19 libraries in the Boston Library Consortium.

The Libraries accomplish these tasks by setting priorities and following through on them. Each year, we undertake a few carefully selected projects that move us closer to achieving our strategic plan. This year, we updated our strategic plan and reorganized the Libraries from seven functional areas into five program areas. Starting this summer, the five program areas, which generally correspond to the University’s five major academic plan goals, will begin to carry out the Libraries’ new strategic plan that was completed in late 2009.

Over the next several years, we will re-allocate as many staff as possible to directly serve users. Already, this year, we have increased the number of

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library staff directly involved in undergraduate services and our strategic plan calls for adding three more library staff to our Undergraduate Education Team. When we are able to fill positions again we will also concentrate on recruiting research services librarians to best serve the academic programs UConn is emphasizing as part of its academic plan.

It has been a challenging year, but our staff members have risen to the occasion. With technological advances and hard work, we will, in fact,do better with less.

1) Tutoring and assistance with technology-based issues in the Learning Commons plus the round-the-clock access brought record numbers of people to Homer Babbidge Library during final exams.

2) Requests from UConn faculty and students for interlibrary loans increased by 32 percent this year.

3) The staff of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, shown with former Director Thomas Wilsted, won a distinguished service award from the Society of American Archivists.

4) Internationally acclaimed artist Werner Pfeiffer donated his sculpture titled “Endangered Species” to the Libraries, which was installed in Bookworms Café. The piece was dedicated at a special event in October attended by administrators, staff, and members of the campus community.

5) Charlotte Bunch, founder and executive director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University, delivered the 15th Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights on Oct. 20 in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.

6) A new laptop loan program introduced in mid-March, which allows students to borrow laptop computers for up to three hours and use them within the Library, has been enthusiastically embraced by students. The computers, acquired through a grant, were donated to the Library by the Neag School of Education.

7) Former U.S. Representative Christopher H. Shays donated his Congressional papers, which chronicle his 21 years representing Connecticut’s 4th District in Congress, to the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Here he reviews materials with the Dodd Center’s Interim Director Betsy Pittman.

8) Noted library prognosticator and dean of the University Library, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, David W. Lewis, center, was the featured speaker at the Libraries’ Spring Forum. Lewis, former head of Reference and Information Services at Homer Babbidge Library, shares a light moment with another former UConn Libraries staff member Terry Plum, left, now assistant dean, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Brinley Franklin, vice provost for University Libraries.

9) For the second consecutive year, the UConn Libraries contributed 500,000 pages of digitized material to the Open Content Alliance, a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world, that is creating a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia material. In addition to the half-million pages scanned in Boston, Digital Projects Librarian Michael J. Bennett and graduate student Kathryn Miller digitize a rare volume in a lab in Homer Babbidge Library, which will also be deposited in the archive.

10) Librarians Fran Libbey, left, and Carolyn Mills, right, chat with Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Janine Caira, who kicked off the Libraries’ new series “Research Highlights @ Noon,” in September with a talk on her study of tapeworms in sharks and stingrays.

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University of ConnecticutSelected Statistics 2008-2009

COLLECTIONSTotal Volumes Number of Current Print Serials Number of Full-text Electronic Journals

INFORMATION SERVICESReference/Information QuestionsClassroom Instruction SessionsNumber of Participants

ACCESS SERVICESGeneral Circulation TransactionsReserve Circulation TransactionsInterlibrary Loans (Borrowed)Interlibrary Loans (Lent)

PERSONNEL (FTE)Permanent Staff Student Staff Total

EXPENDITURESTotal Library Expenditures

2007 - 08

2,730,9462,937

68,434

35,250 656

20,569

2008 - 09

2,769,3632,719

91,052

27,768 777

16,910

150,581 151,448

32,809 25,845

150,233 115,999

40,67526,155

115.5 39

154.5

101.536

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$20,748,392 $20,134,021

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University of ConnecticutLibrariesSelected Statistics 2008-2009

SELECTED ELECTRONIC SERVICES

ACADEMIC UNIVERSE (Searches) WORLDCAT (OCLC Searches)

JSTOR (Searches) ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER (Searches) ABI/INFORM (iConn provided) ISI (Web of Science) (Searches)

Science Direct (Sessions)

HOMER (UConn Libraries Catalog Searches)

2007 - 08 2008 - 09

66,768

62,754

173,073

302,197

85,735

123,396

140,513

1,091,997

57,275

71,816

143,327

288,591

79,634

113,105

152,762

1,191,640

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Staff RosterCurrent staff as of June 30, 2009

Vice Provost for University LibrariesBrinley Franklin

Assistant Vice Provost for University LibrariesMarian Farley

Central Services

Acquisitions - Financial Services - Statistics

Ed ChangHilda DrabekGeorge KingChris Mc NevinsDeborah Sanford

Administrative Services Team

Bob FallAnn Galonska*Merlita MurphyElizabeth Tonucci

Digital Programs Team

Sandy BakerMichael BennettLinda JacksonDavid Lowe

Information Technology Team

David BretthauerNicholas EshelmanDavid HickingTony MolloyRick O’TooleRaul PotencianoRobert Swanson

Resource Access Team

Bill AndersonMary BriggsJanice ChristopherLynn CoteSandy GallupTom KoenigElinor PennFred RickJoe ScottPaulette Traichel*

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Dodd Research Center

Archives and Special Collections

Kristin Eshelman Terri GoldichValerie LoveBetsy PittmanLaura SmithMelissa Watterworth

Conservation

Carole DyalCharlie Pei

Public Programming, Marketing,Communications

Jean NelsonMeredith PetersonsJane RecchioSuzanne Zack

Regional Campus Libraries

Nancy Dryden

Avery Point

Jan HeckmanBeth Rumery*Barbara Vizoyan

Greater Hartford

Marsha LeeJan Lambert

Claudia LopesJanice MathewsBill Uricchio

Torrington

Sheila LaffertyDiane Mather*

Stamford

Phara BayonneShelley CudinerNancy RomanelloRadha Srikanth*

Waterbury

Norma HolmquistShelley RosemanJanet Swift

Research Services

Francine DeFranco

Arts and Humanities Team

Peter AllisonRichard BleilerTracey RudnickMichael Young

Sciences Team

Valori BanfiStephen FairfieldSharon GiovenaleFran Libbey

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Jill LivingstonCarolyn Mills

Social Sciences Team

Steve BattMarisol RamosShikha Sharma

Undergraduate Education & Access Services

Scott Kennedy

Circulation/Reserves

Joel AtkinsonKim CrockettLois FletcherGail HillNancy MartinBarbara MitchellJo Ann Reynolds

Collection Maintenance, Document Delivery, Interlibrary Loan

Lana Babij*Steve BustamanteJudy DelottieSteve GrigoreasLisa HendricksRobin Lubatkin*Erika McNeilJoe NataleLynn Sweet

Emerging Technologies

David Avery

Facilities/Security

Brian ColemanWilliam Haalck*David MorochMichael Swetzes*

Undergraduate Education

Kathy Banas-MartiBarbara CerveraSusanna CowanKate FullerMichael HowserKathy LabadorfBill MillerBen Spaulding

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Staff TransitionsJuly 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009

Recruited - Storrs CampusRobert SwansonUNIX Systems Administrator

Joel AtkinsonEvening and Weekend Supervising Librarian

PromotionsPhara BayonneUniversity Librarian III

Elizabeth RumeryUniversity Librarian II

Michael YoungUniversity Librarian III

Left Library ServiceThomas WilstedJoseph LeoneThornton McGlameryBarbara OakleyTamra ColemanMelinda BentleySusan SmithThomas WoodShirley QuinteroStephanie Brown

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PublicationsBabij, Lana “News and Views: Reflections on Visualizing the Holodomor,” The Ukrainian Weekly (March 29, 2009).

Babij, Lana & Suzanne Zack“Can Libraries and Google Coexist? Noted Library Prognosticator Issues a Qualified ‘Yes’,” UConn Libraries (April/May 2009).

Banfi, Valori, Cunegundo Vergara & Fei Wang“Hypertension in Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States,” Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal (September, 2008).

Banfi, Valori & Jennifer Telford “A Librarian and School of Nursing Professor Help Students —and Patients — by Incorporating Research into a Pathophysiology Course,” UConn Libraries (Feb/March 2009).

Bayonne, Phara “BCALA-CT Celebrates 10th Anniversary,” Connecticut Libraries (December 2008).

Bayonne, Phara & Debra Willams “Urban Lit: The Hot New Genre,” Connecticut Libraries (May 2008).

Bennett, Michael & David Lowe “A Status Report on JPEG 2000 Implementation for Still Images: The UConn Survey,” Society for Imaging Science and Technology Archiving 2009, Final Program and Proceedings, (May 7, 2009).

Bennett, Michael “Digital Commons’ Variegated Online Garden,” UConn Libraries (September/October 2008).

“Revamped Portal Design Features Libraries’ Digital Collections Under One Roof,” UConn Libraries (February/March 2009).

“UConn Faculty and Students Assess Library Service Quality,” UConn Libraries (September/October 2008).

Franklin, Brinley Book Review, Library Assessment in Higher Education by Joseph R. Matthews, Library and Information Science Research (September, 2008).

Franklin, Brinley, Terry Plum, Martha Kyrillidou, Gary Roebuck, Mashana Davis & Kristina Justh“Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Resources: Developing an Assessment Infrastructure

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for Libraries, State, and Other Types of Consortia,” Proceedings of the 2nd Library Assessment Conference, Seattle, Washington , 2008 (2009).

Franklin, Brinley, Terry Plum & Martha Kyrillidou “From Usage to User: Library Metrics and Expectations for the Evaluation of Digital Libraries,” Evaluation of Digital Libraries: an Insight to Useful Applications and Methods (Chandos Publishing, 2008).

Franklin, Brinley & Terry Plum “Assessing the Value and Impact of Digital Content,” Journal of Library Administration (July, 2008).

Goldich, Terri “To Copenhagen for the Weisgard Collection,” ABC Newsletter (Spring 2009).

Lafferty, Sheila A. “Trends in Mobile Tools,” Connecticut Library Association Annual Conference report, Connecticut Libraries (May 2008).

Love, Valerie “First International Forum on Archives and Human Rights Held in Mexico City,” Archival Outlook (March/April 2009).

Ramos, Marisol “Mining for Information: How to Mine Genealogical Information in University Archives and Special Collections,” Nuestra Herencia (Summer/Fall 2008).

Roseman, Shelley “Book Review: Danny P. Wallace/Knowledge Management: Historical and Cross Disciplinary Themes,” Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship (2008).

Rudnick, Tracey, Barbara Oakley & Betsy Pittman “Tackling Copyright in the Digital Age: An Initiative of the University of Connecticut Libraries,” Journal of Access Services (September 2008).

Rudnick, Tracey “From the Chair,” MOUG [Music OCLC Users Group] Newsletter (June, September, and December 2008).

Sanford, Deborah, Paul Beavers & Betsy Redman “Best Practices: Using SerialsSolutions (SS) Knowledgebase for De-Duping/Counting Electronic Serials,” ARL Statistics Best Practices for Deduplication Serial Titles (December 4, 2008).

Swift, Janet “Waterbury Library Welcomes Lifelong Learning,” UConn Libraries (November/December, 2008).

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Uricchio, William “Annual Report Noir: Making Annual Reports More Interesting,” Connecticut Libraries (March 2009).

“Tempus Fugit: A Learning Experience,” Connecticut Libraries (November 2008).

“The Umpire Strikes Back – Management Tips From a Pro,” Connecticut Libraries (January 2009).

Uricchio, William & David Kapp “Fifty and Counting: Celebrating CL’s Anniversary With a New Look,” Connecticut Libraries (December 2008).

Watterworth, Melissa “Planting Seeds for a Successful Institutional Repository: Role of the Archivist as Manager, Designer and Policy-Maker,” Journal of Archival Organization (June 2009).

Zack, Suzanne “Dodd Center Honored by National Archivists Society,” UConn Advance (September 2, 2008).

“Babbidge Library to Offer Lunchtime Talks by Faculty,” UConn Advance (September 8, 2008).

“Faculty, Students Assess Quality of Library Services,” UConn Advance (September 22, 2008).

“New Sculpture in Babbidge Library to be Dedicated Oct. 23,” and photo, UConn Advance (October 20, 2008).

“Human Rights to Focus on Gender Issues,” UConn Advance (October 14, 2008).

“Talk on Future of Libraries Slated for March 10,” UConn Advance (February 23, 2009).

“Speaker Discusses History of Children Literature in U.S.” UConn Advance (November 3, 2008).

“New Art Installation at Babbidge Library will Celebrate Words in Many Languages,” and photo, UConn Advance (February 2, 2009).

“Laptops Available for Loan at Babbidge Library,” and photo, UConn Advance (March 2, 2009).

“U.S. Civil Rights Historian to Deliver Sackler Human Rights Lecture March 31,” UConn Advance (March 23, 2009).

“Society of American Archivists Recognize Dodd Research Center,” photo, UConn Magazine (Fall/Winter 2008).

Library Exhibits “Endangered Species” Installation, UConn Magazine (Spring 2009).

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“Hans Weiss: A Successful Entrepreneur and Artist,” UConn Libraries (September/October 2008).

“Leonard S. Marcus: A Writer, Historian, and Critic of Children’s Literature,” UConn Libraries (November/December 2008).

“Art Installation Speaks Volumes at Homer Babbidge Library,” UConn Libraries (February/March 2009).

“Shining a Light on Agriculture in Connecticut for Three Decades: Alexander R. Gavitt Jr.,” UConn Libraries (April/May 2009).

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PresentationsBanfi, Valori, Carolyn Mills & Chris McNevins“Offline: an Exhibition of Arts and Crafts by the Staff of the University Libraries,” exhibit, Homer Babbidge Library (Storrs, CT, October 20-December 19, 2008).

Bayonne, Phara & Edward Donnald “LibGuides: A New Generation of Research Guides,” Connecticut Library Association Annual Conference (New Haven, CT, May 1, 2009).

Bennett, Michael & David Lowe “A Status Report on JPEG 2000 Implementation for Still Images: The UConn Survey,” The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Archiving 2009 Conference (Arlington, VA, May 7, 2009).

Bennett, Michael “An Inexpensive Alternative to CS Photoshop & Bridge: Archival Master Image Capture and Batch Derivative Creation in Canon Scan Gear & Adobe Photoshop Elements 7,” Connecticut State Library, Division of Library Development (Willimantic, CT, April 14, 2009).

DeFranco, Francine “Now What?: Using Survey Results to Inform Decision Making and Planning for User Centered Change,” Connecticut Library Consortium Meeting (West Hartford, CT June 11, 2008).

Eshelman, Kristin, Pam Hackbart-Dean & Nanci Young “We’re Ignoring That: Collection Development and What Not to Collect, Appraisal of Born-digital Materials: Alternatives to Crossing Your Fingers and Hoping for the Best,” Society of American Archivists (San Francisco, CA, August 28, 2008).

Eshelman, Kristin, Joan Krizack & Ross Harvey “From Research to Practice,” New England Archivists (Cambridge, MA, March 28, 2009).

Eshelman, Kristin, Betsy Pittman & Melissa Watterworth “Archives on the Road,” Coventry Historical Society (Coventry, CT, April 16, 2009).

Franklin, Brinley“Aligning Library Strategy and Structure with the Campus Academic Plan – A Case Study,” University of Oklahoma Conference on Redefining Relevance: Exceeding User Expectations in a Digital Age (Oklahoma City, OK, March 5, 2009).

Franklin, Brinley, Colleen Cook, Martha Kyrillidou & Bruce Thompson “Library Investment Index Based on the ARL Statistics: Why is it Important?” Library Assessment Conference (Seattle, WA August 5, 2008).

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Franklin, Brinley, Terry Plum, Martha Kyrillidou, Gary Roebuck, MaShanna Davis & Kristina Justh “Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services (MINES for Libraries™): Developing an Assessment Infrastructure for Libraries, State, and Other Types of Consortia,” Library Assessment Conference (Seattle, WA, August 4, 2008).

Franklin, Brinley, Colleen Cook, Martha Kyrillidou & Bruce Thompson “Library Investment Index: Why is It Important?” Library Assessment Conference, (Seattle, WA, August 5, 2008).

Goldich, Terri “Machine-Stamped Bindings and Specimens in Archives & Special Collections,” Historic Society of Early American Decoration, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center (Storrs, CT April 2, 2009).

Heckman, Jan & Mary Heckman “Learning Commons Planning: One Size Does Not Fit All,” International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers Conference (Suva, Fiji, September 17, 2008).

Howser, Michael & William Miller “MAGIC 2.0 Overview: Online Map Viewer and Public Data Access possibilities,” Connecticut Demographics Studies Advisory Committee, UConn Greater Hartford Campus (West Hartford, CT, December 11, 2008).

Howser, Michael “MAGIC 2.0: Maps and Geographic Data Meet Interactivity,” University of Connecticut Educational Technology Meeting (Storrs, CT May 15, 2009). Lafferty, Sheila “Google for Genealogists,” New Milford Public Library Genealogy Group (New Milford, CT, September 29, 2008).

“Genealogy 101: Starting to Climb Your Family Tree,” Locally Grown History (Torrington, CT, October 19, 2008). “Beyond the Basic Google Search Box,” Connecticut Library Association Support Staff Section Annual Conference (Middletown, CT, November 7, 2008).

“Beyond The Basics: Firefox, the Other Browser,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Waterbury, CT, May 8, 2009).

“Beyond the Basic Google Search Box,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Waterbury, CT, April 24, 2009).

“Better Searching with Google,” University of Connecticut Educational Technology Training and Support Network (Storrs, CT, February 20, 2009).

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Love, Valerie “Connecting the Local and the Global: Building Human Rights Collections at the University of Connecticut,” First International Forum on Archives and Human Rights (Mexico City, Mexico. December 9-11, 2008).

Pittman, Betsy, Rebecca Johnson Melvin & Katherine Shirley “Exploiting the Online World for Access to Collections,” Annual Meeting of the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress (Washington, D.C., May 7, 2009).

Ramos, Marisol & Alma C. Ortega “Librarians Casting the Net: Outreach to Latin-American Students and Latino Students in Academia,” Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (New Orleans, LA, May 30-June 3, 2008).

Ramos, Marisol “Indigenous Voices from Within: Aztec and Mayan Self- Depictions through Pre-Hispanic Codices,” Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center (Storrs, CT, May 30-June 3, 2008). “How to Mine Genealogical Information in University Archives and Special Collections,” Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York (New York, NY, April 5, 2008).

Roseman, Shelley “Do you Have Books and Articles On...,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Waterbury, CT March 20, 2009).

“Tracking Down the Best of the Web,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Waterbury, CT, April 3, 2009).

Rudnick, Tracey “Chair’s Remarks and Award Presentation,” Music OCLC Users Group Business Meeting, (MOUG) Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL, February 18, 2009).

Rumery, Elizabeth “Job Search Skills,” Seminar Series: Preparing for Graduation, UConn, Avery Point Campus (Groton, CT, September 29, 2008).

Smith, Laura “Artificial Collections in the Archives,” New England Archivists Spring Meeting (Boston, MA, March 28, 2009).

Spaulding, Benjamin “MAGIC 2.0: The Development of Web-Based GIS Applications for Historical GIS Data,”New England - Saint Lawrence Valley Geographical Society 2008 Annual Meeting (Plymouth, N.H., October 31, 2008).

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“Recent Developments at MAGIC: Incorporating Open GIS Standards into Online Mapping Tools,” Connecticut GIS Day at Southern Connecticut State University (New Haven, CT, November 19, 2008).

“MAGIC 2.0: The Development of Web-Based GIS Applications for Historical GIS Data,” Association of American Geographers 2009 Annual Meeting (Las Vegas, NV, March 26, 2009).

“Developing Online Open Source GIS Technology for Historical GIS,” 2009 Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference (Tampa, FL, April 22, 2009).

Spaulding, Benjamin & Michael Howser “Using Web Map Services for Historical Maps Mash-Ups,” Northeast Arc Users Group - 2009 Spring Meeting (Northampton, MA, May 12, 2009).

Watterworth, Melissa “Getting Our Hands Dirty and Liking It: Case Studies in Archiving Digital Manuscripts,” Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA August 28, 2008).

“An Archival Approach to Curating Born-Digital and Electronic Literary Materials,” Electronic Literature Organization Conference (Vancouver, WA, May 31, 2008).

“Archives on the Road,” sponsored by the Dodd Research Center, Coventry Historical Society and the New England Archivists (Coventry, CT April 16, 2009).

“Y is For You: Being the ABC Book,” Exhibition Curator, Draper National Graduate Student Conference on Early American Studies, sponsored by the University of Connecticut and the American Antiquarian Society, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center (Storrs, CT, September 18-25, 2008).

“’Words Alive Like Animals’: An Exhibit of Beat Writers,” Exhibition Coordinator, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center (Storrs, CT April 6-May 15, 2009).

Zack, Suzanne “She Sells Sea Shells: Lynda Susan Hennigan, Recreator of Sailors’ Valentines,” exhibit, Homer Babbidge Library (Storrs, CT May 27- August 15, 2008).

“Familiar Terrain: Joan Jacobson-Zamore, Printmaker,” exhibit, Homer Babbidge Library (Storrs, CT January 20 - March 6, 2009).

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Professional PositionsAnderson, William Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Cataloging Policy Committee (OLAC-CAPC), Playaways Task Force, and, chair, Moving Image Form/Genre Task Force.

Bayonne, Phara President, Black Caucus American Library Association-Connecticut Affiliate; Mentoring and Career Recruitment Committee, Connecticut Library Association.

Eshelman, Kristin Education Committee, New England Archivists.

Franklin, Brinley President, Boston Library Consortium; Vice President/President-elect, Association of Research Libraries.

Giovenale, Sharon Chair, 2008-2009, Library/Educational Resources Section, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy; Web Developer, Pharmacy and Drug Information Section, Medical Library Association; MLA Allied Representative to the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Libraries/Educational Resources Section.

Goldich, Terri Co-Chair, Connecticut Children’s Book Fair; Chair, 2009 Connecticut Book Award for Children’s Writing, CT Center for the Book; Panelist, Connecticut Humanities Council’s Reading for Meaning Coalition.

Heckman, Jan SAIL representative, International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers.

Holmquist, NormaProgram Planning Committee, Business & Economic Development Section, Connecticut Library Association.

Howser, Michael Steering Committee, Connecticut GIS User to User Network.

Labadorf, KathleenACRL Women’s Studies Section: Bibliographer for Feminist Pedagogy in Core Books,ACRLNE-NELIG: listserv manager.

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Lafferty, Sheila Vice-Chair/Chair-elect, Executive Board Member, Connecticut Library Association, College and University Libraries Section; Board Member, Litchfield County Writers Project, University of Connecticut Torrington Campus; Collection Advisory Committee, Torrington Library Association.

Love, ValerieProgram Committee Spring Meeting 2010, New England Archivist; Founder and Moderator, Archives and Human Rights Email Listserv.

Mathews, Janice Subject Editor for Urban Studies, RCLweb, the online edition of the new Resources for College Libraries.

Mills, Carolyn Co-Chair, Scholarly Communication SIG for ACRL-New England for 2008-2010.

Natale, Joseph WorldCat Navigator Implementation Team, Boston Library Consortium.

Pittman, Betsy Archivist, New England Archivists; Executive Committee; Association of Centers for the Study of Congress; Connecticut State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Ramos, Marisol Founder, Society of American Archivists’ Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives (LACCHA) Roundtable; Senior Co-Chair, Society of American Archivists’ Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable, Nominating Committee, New England Archivists. Rudnick, TraceyAssistant Editor for Electronic Vendors, Notes, quarterly journal of the Music Library Association; Executive Board Chair, Music OCLC Users Group.

Sanford, Deborah Connecticut Digital Library Advisory Board.

Shelley, Roseman LIRT Transition to College Committee, American Library Association; Library Instruction Round-Table, ALA.

Swift, Janet Treasurer, Friends of the Silas Bronson Library, Waterbury, CT.

Uricchio, William Editorial Committee, Connecticut Library Association.

Watterworth, Melissa Executive Board, New England Archivists; Society of American Archivists.

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